10 Tuesday Nov 2015
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Hot off the presses from Mr Anderson: Year 9 Humanities Common Test – Help Sheet
Common Test is on 27 November (week 7)
Topics covered:
Part 1 – History (Making a Nation, World War I, Industrial Revolution)
Part 2 – Civics and Citizenship (“For we are young and free”)
Part 3 – Geographies of Interconnection
06 Friday Nov 2015
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Review
What did you learn?
What did you expect – of the topic? – of yourself?
What was difficult?
What would you do differently next time?
Anything else?
04 Wednesday Nov 2015
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I will fill these in with contributions once I get my own computer back. I still need contributions from a number of people… but well done for this section Cameron
Well done Inca and Henri.
Well done George and Josh. Both done homework.
Perestroika: ‘restructuring’: economic, political, social – but didn’t effectively and authoritatively replace the old systems
Glasnost: ‘openness’: open discussion of politics and economics, including criticism of the government.
Why did communism collapse seemingly instantaneously in 1989?
Summary from US State Dept
History.com: A good single page with 2:30 video overview
Berlin Wall Memorial (open in Chrome and translate)
02 Monday Nov 2015
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Start today on assessment task please
DUE:
Dewhirst: Monday Week 6, start of lesson
Pope: Tuesday Week 6, start of lesson
Rough scratch up of an annotated map…
For lots of statistics about Australia, try the Australian Bureau of Statistics (www.abs.gov.au)
An example of an annotated map of the globalised nature of one product by the BBC. (You may not use this example!)
02 Monday Nov 2015
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Start today on assessment task please
Term 4 Assignment-Geographies of Human Wellbeing
Due: Friday 20 November (Week 6)
Please note that I have a very short timeframe to mark – if you submit late, you will have a 0 for this task.
Human Wellbeing: The issues (an introduction)
United Nations: index of Global Issues
Access to sanitation
Access to water
– The Water Project: Education, Health, Hunger, Poverty
– How throwing away food wastes water too
Access to shelter
Child Exploitation
– Child Labour resources from United Nations
– Violence against women and girls resources from UN
Non-Government Organisations (NGOs)
Poverty & Aid (Worldvision)
– Hunger (United Nations)
Geographies of Human Wellbeing
(includes chapters on Women & Girls, Population & Poverty, Disease)
Impact of colonialism: emotive, persuasive article suggesting reparations to former colonies.
30 Friday Oct 2015
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Review of India, and of indicators (of development, of well-being) used so far.
What are some you came across? What do they measure & why measure this?
How do they fit together…
More info:
Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index
China will get rich before it gets old (Foreign Affairs)
28 Wednesday Oct 2015
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Context
Overview of Detente
Détente (a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, May 1972.
Read more at (and the above stolen from!) History.com
More detail:
Global Security – Cold War in the 1970s
CSU HSC Online – Detente
Office of the Historian (US Govt)
– Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
– Strategic Arms Limitation Talks / Treaties (SALT I and II)
– Rapprochement with China (1972)
– Ending US Involvement in Vietnam
Foreign Affairs: Goodbye to Detente (1980)
27 Tuesday Oct 2015
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India is a classic example of vast differences in wealth in a single country:
To what extent have the following contributed to inequalities within India?
Start with the information from the text, and if your reading speed is reasonably fast (!) find at least one other source. If you are a slower reader, stick with just the textbook. (Reading speed, not laziness level!)
– British colonialism (textbook)
– caste system (textbook)
– population growth (textbook)
Write one paragraph on each. (70-150 words)
26 Monday Oct 2015
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(Check progress on posters…)
Time for continuing with posters
‘Discussion’ on learned helplessness – it is easy to give up and say ‘I don’t understand’ and then do nothing… Take responsibility for your learning. Find out. Try.
26 Monday Oct 2015
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http://frontiermarketstrategy.com/2013/02/24/five-key-trade-routes-from-history/
Small groups:
Take one each of
Use at least one different source per group member (in addition to the introductory site above) to explain this trade route. You should tell us when this route existed, what caused it to start and finish, how did it impact on the countries involved and show us the route on a map.
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